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Korean has some doozies: https://youtu.be/hQuJwjAnWHA https://youtu.be/hQuJwjAnWHA "Skinship" - try and guess what that means.
by smegel 10y ago
Korean has some doozies:
https://youtu.be/hQuJwjAnWHA https://youtu.be/hQuJwjAnWHA
"Skinship" - try and guess what that means.
- glandium 10y agoA lot of the ones mentioned in this video are also used in Japan. Check out the thread about wasei-eigo https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12716517 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12716517 . It would be interesting to know if they came from one to the other, or from somewhere else. Note that skinship has been borrowed back with a different nuance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_intimacy#Skinship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_intimacy#Skinship
- smegel 10y agoInteresting, the Japanese and English nuances are similar. The Korean one is almost exclusively (from what I can gather) used as a comment on dating that is more physical than emotional, e.g. the English equivalent would be "they are just physical".